Once you’ve activated the Yoast SEO Premium, you will notice a “Yoast internal linking” box on the right-hand side of your editor. You can copy post link from there and insert it into the new blog post.

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Another amazing feature of Yoast SEO is, you can check the number of incoming and outgoing internal links on blog posts.

Just go to WordPress Dashboard > SEO (Yoast Tab) > General Tab and click on “Count links in your texts”. It takes some time to count your links.

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Once it’s done, now go to “All Posts” from WordPress Dashboard. You will see two new columns that show the number of internal links in or to the posts.

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This way you can easily find the blog posts with low incoming or outgoing internal links. And you can add more internal links in or to those posts.

I prefer using this plugin as most of the WordPress site owners are already using the free version of this plugin.

However, if you are looking for another solution, I’d recommend you to use Interlinks Manager.

It’s a complete internal link manager WordPress plugin. If you haven’t done any interlinking for your old posts, this plugin will be very helpful for you. It has some fantastic features like analyzing the interlinks, tracking the clicks, calculating the link juice, automatic interlinking, interlinks suggestions, and many more.

Interlinks Suggestions is the most helpful feature of this plugin. It helps you to find related posts while editing a post. It will save a lot of time.

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So these are the two best WordPress Interlinking Plugins.

3. Use Google Search

Usually, we interlink old blog posts with the new post. But what about the new post that just got published?

We need to interlink the new post with old posts. In that case, you have to find the related old posts to the new post. You can easily find it by doing a simple Google search for your own site.

For example, I will be searching for the keyword “internal linking” in my own blog. All I have to do is, search for the term “site:roadtoblogging.com internal linking”.

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It’s showing the blog posts that have the keywords “internal linking”. Now I’ll go through the all blog posts and check if the new blog post is relevant for interlinking. And I’ll interlink the new post accordingly.

The technique is mainly helpful for the newly published blog post. But you can use it for old posts too.

Final Thoughts

So these are the ways that you can use to internal link your blog posts more efficiently in WordPress. Now I’d like to give you some Internal Linking SEO tips to help you get better at internal linking.

Don’t use too many internal links.

Don’t use internal link just for the sake of SEO. Only interlink when you think it will be beneficial for your readers.

Don’t over-optimize your anchor text for internal links. You don’t need to use the exact match anchor text all the time.

Don’t interlink the same page again and again.

Keep these points in your mind while doing internal linking.

Now I’d like to hear from you. Do you use any other ways or plugins to interlink your blog posts? Do let us know via comment.

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Hi Rayhan, you shared some good helpful tips, especially the Yoast Premium one, I didn’t know that. I like to naturally mention my older posts as when I see it fit. It also helps when someone copy paste your content with the exact internal link. I talked about it in my latest post on plagiarism.

Yes, doing it naturally is the best way. But when you have a good number of posts, it’s tough to do it naturally. And interlinking also becomes helpful when someone copies the content. Thanks for stopping by.

Thanks for sharing an important post on interlinking of blog posts.
I have a question – normally all posts have incoming internal links from the Home Page (via category). Should we provide outgoing internal links from a blog post back to the Home page?